In the eighth year of Xuanhe, early May, Hedong, Taiyuan Prefecture.
Dozens of light riders in black hats and long clothes flew across the land on the east bank of the Fen River and headed straight for the Nanguan City Gate on the outer edge of Taiyuan Mansion. These light cavalrymen in black hats and long robes are all fierce warriors, and everyone looks cheerful. Obviously they are not aware of the drastic changes that happened in Kinki of the Song Dynasty!
These people are all Song Dynasty warriors on the ground in Hedong. The leader is an extremely grown-up man with a long face, dark skin, and piercing eyes. He wears a dazzling red silk dress and carries a Tang Dynasty sword on his waist. The straight sword is extremely powerful.
This man in red is about forty years old, his surname is Zhang Mingjun, his surname is Boying, and he is from Chengji County, Fengxiang Prefecture! That's right, it's Zhang Jun, one of the four ZTE generals in history!
It turned out that he was also sent to Hedong to resist the Jin soldiers, and he arrived earlier than Zhao Kai, but he did not achieve any victory. Together with several other troops who came to aid Hedong, he was defeated by the Jin general Yin Shuke. You have to lose again and again.
Just when he thought that the Jin army was invincible and Hedong was hopeless, a Song prince who was probably crazy suddenly led troops to Hedong and reversed the situation in Hedong in one fell swoop!
After the mad king expelled the golden thieves and became the lord of Taiyuan, the Song army soldiers in all parts of Hedong, without exception, received a message from King Yun of the Song Dynasty who "led Hedong by himself" - asking them to go See you in Taiyuan!
This form of official document Zazi has three uses. Except for using it when performing affairs in the court, the other two uses are official documents for superiors to command subordinates. For example, Zhu Lushuai used Zazi when commanding his subordinates.
And Zhao Kai used Zhazi to summon the generals from Hedong to meet him, which was equivalent to placing them in the position of vassals. It obviously violated the laws of the Song Dynasty... If the Song Dynasty court could still control Hedong, the censor could impeach Zhao Kai over this matter.
However, Zhang Jun did not dare not go to Taiyuan Mansion. Such powerful Jin soldiers were repulsed by the Song Dynasty Hebei Army Marshal and King Yun Zhao Kai! This is the hard truth! How dare Zhang Jun refuse to accept it? If you don't obey, you will be beaten!
Moreover, Zhang Jun also received news that the Pingding Army and the Song Army in Taiyuan Prefecture were all recruited by Zhao Kai into some kind of Tiance Army! Even senior court officials such as Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Zhen also took refuge in King Yun Zhao Kai. One became the transport envoy to Hedong, and the other became the right commander of the Tiance Army.
Oh my God! Can King Yun Zhao Kai decide on such an official position as a transshipment envoy? What does this King Yun want to do? Do you want to wear a yellow robe and become an official?
No... I have to go and seek refuge!
This is the power of following the dragon!
So after Zhang Jun got Zhao Kai's letter, without saying a word, he led his two confidants Yang Yizhong and Tian Cunzhong, and dozens of cavalry guards to Taiyuan Prefecture. .
As soon as the group approached the city gate, they heard singing that was very out of tune from a distance.
"Did any of you hear it? Someone seemed to be singing!"
"It seems that there are many people singing together! The sound comes from inside the city gate..."
Zhang Jun also heard the singing. The singing was very neat, and one could tell that it had been practiced with some effort.
He reined in his horse and stretched his neck to look at Taiyuan Nanguan City Gate. What I saw was a wall protecting the door.
Taiyuan Fucheng can hold out for so long under the siege of the Jin soldiers. The city defense is undoubtedly extremely strong. Pingding Military City has sheep and horse walls, gate walls, parapets, outer trenches, outer outer walls, etc. Taiyuan Fucheng Of course there are. Moreover, Taiyuan Fucheng also has many defensive facilities that Pingding Military City does not have, such as Ma Mian (a small fortress protruding from the city wall), Que Tai (a small fortress built on the city wall), etc.
Therefore, standing on the official road outside the Nanguan City Gate of Taiyuan, you cannot see the city gate. You can only see a tall gate wall and a five-foot-high sheep and horse wall.
But those who sang loudly did not keep Zhang Jun waiting for too long. They lined up and went around from behind the city wall, and then passed through a gap in the sheep and horse wall and a passage filled with rammed earth in the trench. , came out of the city in a mighty manner - first a dozen cavalrymen who opened the way, and then the infantry in neat formation.
Zhang Jun observed carefully and found that the people leading the way were all unarmored light cavalry. They were also dressed like himself, wearing black hats and long clothes, with straight swords and quivers hanging from their waists, and a spear slung behind them. The tip of the spear was polished so brightly that the sun shone on it, giving off a frightening light.
The infantry following behind were wearing Fan Yangli and red military uniforms, carrying spears or long-handled swords and axes. Everyone was carrying a walking bow or a divine arm bow, and they also carried a watch on their backs. It’s a big baggage, and it looks quite heavy.
These infantry troops were numerous, arranged in four neat columns, and continuously circled out from behind the gate wall of Taiyuan Nanguan City Gate. Not only did they line up neatly, but they also sang generously as they moved forward, and their morale was so high that it almost overflowed.
The song they sang seemed to be "The River is Red".
"I am so angry that I lean on the railing, and the drizzle of rain stops. I look up, look up to the sky and roar, my heart is full of passion. Thirty years of fame and dust, eight thousand miles of clouds and moon. Don't wait for a long time, and your young head will turn white, and you will be filled with sorrow. It is difficult to declare peace. , It has not yet been conquered. When will the hatred of a strong man be destroyed..."
Singing "Man Jiang Hong", these generals walked south along the official road at a brisk pace after leaving the city. The light cavalry who opened the way before these infantrymen came towards Zhang Jun and others with great momentum. When a man with a beard and a face full of flesh saw Zhang Jun and his men blocking the front, he opened his throat and shouted: "Tiance's soldiers are going out, and the rest of the people are waiting to get out of the way!"
Zhang Jun obtained an official status ten years ago and is now a tyrant. Among the military attachés of the Song Dynasty, he was also ranked among the top. When had he ever been scolded like this by a cavalryman? Yang Yizhong and Tian Shizhong who were following him were even more furious and were about to go up to argue. But the group of Qingqi jumping forward in front of him gave Zhang Jun a very dangerous feeling - these people might have killed the "real gold thief"!
Thinking of this, Zhang Jun, who had always acted arrogantly, gently pulled the reins, causing the horse under his crotch to dodge to the side of the road. Yang Yizhong, Tian Shizhong and others were cowed when they saw their boss, and they did not dare to attack again, so they had to follow avoid.
The group of people were just outside the Nanguan City Gate on the outer edge of Taiyuan City, and immediately watched the large group of so-called Tiance soldiers pass by in a mighty manner.
Zhang Jun and others were not the only ones who were avoiding Tiance's soldiers on both sides of the official road. There were also some merchants, woodcutters or farmers carrying vegetables, chickens and ducks who had already taken shelter on the roadside.
When the mighty Tian Ce soldiers passing by finished singing the song "The River is Red" and began to count "one, two, one", the local merchants, woodcutter, and farmers in Taiyuan Prefecture began to discuss in low voices.
"Why are there so many soldiers leaving the city every day? Yesterday at this time, there were soldiers leaving the city. Why are there so many soldiers leaving the city again today?"
"Not only yesterday and today, but the day before yesterday, the day before yesterday, the day before yesterday...Since late April, soldiers have been leaving the city every day!"
"Every day? How many soldiers does General Tiance have?"
"Eight hundred thousand! I heard there is an army of eight hundred thousand!"
"Nonsense, where did you get 800,000? How big is Taiyuan City? How can you pretend to be there?"
"If there weren't so many soldiers, why would tens of thousands of them be leaving every day?"
"Hey, that's because these soldiers will come back at night... They leave at Chen time and return at Xu time."
"Does this happen every day?"
"It's like this every day...it's true, everyone doing business on Nanguan Street knows it!"
"What are they doing out of the city? The sun is so bright, why don't they bask in it?"
"Of course we are training when we leave the city!"
"Really or not? Soldiers for six or seven hours a day? How much salary do these soldiers get? Are they working so hard?"
"Military pay? Not only do we have military pay... we also have the common world!"
"To share the world? What does it mean to share the world?"
"I'm not very clear about this. I heard people say that the Tiance Mansion is inspecting land and clearing land in Taiyuan Mansion and Fenzhou, and is planning to take back all the unowned land to the government, and then allocate it to some Tiance Military Mansion, and then the Military Mansion will What is the role of granting land to Tiance soldiers..."
"I've heard about this too! Because of this, the scholars in Taiyuan Prefecture made trouble, and as a result, the cavalry of Tiance Prefecture gave them a good beating and even killed several of them!"
"Keep your voice down! Don't talk about this... Don't talk about it, don't talk about it!"
What cannot be said has been said!
Zhang Jun, Yang Yizhong, and Tian Shizhong stretched their ears and heard it, so all three of them looked stunned.
What is Zhao Kai doing?
I actually practiced military training from Chen Shi to Xu Shi, and practiced every day!
That's all. If you pay more to the army, the soldiers below will naturally be willing to endure hardships. But why do you still want to "inspect" the land of the scholar-bureaucrats and distribute it to the soldiers? What kind of number is this? Even if you want to recruit archers in the camp, you should give the officials the wasteland. How can you seize the people's fields (actually the fields of the people) to raise troops? Are you trying to embarrass the world's scholar-bureaucrats?
Now Zhang Jun, Yang Yizhong, and Tian Shizhong are in trouble!
Everyone knows that the Song Dynasty shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, but Zhao Kai actually wanted to change the people who shared the world! This is not a fight for the throne between brothers from the Tian family, but the reopening of a new dynasty...
While the three of them were silent and deep in thought, all the Tiance soldiers who had left the city for training had passed through the official road outside Taiyuan Nanguan City. Zhang Jun saw that there were no more neatly arranged infantry passing by, so he laughed a few times and said to his left and right: "Let's go... into the city! Let's see how His Highness King Yun wants to fight with us men. Sharing the world!”
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